Section 225
Liu Xiaodong looked admiringly, looking at Xiao Yi's calm expression, he couldn't help but said: "Aren't you surprised at all?"
Xiao Yi shrugged and said: "Surprise, of course surprise."
This doesn't look like a surprise to you.
Liu Xiaodong cursed in his heart, but then he said: "Then I won't disturb you anymore. I have to go and tell everyone in the laboratory the news."
Xiao Yi smiled, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go."
"Also, I would like to inform you that I will treat everyone in the laboratory to dinner at Tianxiang Restaurant tonight!"
Liu Xiaodong's eyes suddenly lit up, "Okay!"
Then he ran out and began to spread the good news throughout the laboratory.
For a moment, everyone in the laboratory was excited again.
Good guy, I was selected as a Yangtze River Scholar at the age of 20. This is really unprecedented and unprecedented.
As a result, the entire laboratory worshiped Xiao Yi even more.
Of course, the matter of reserving a table at Tianxiang Restaurant has not been left behind. There are less than 50 researchers in the entire laboratory. Plus a few administrative staff like Wang Hao, the four tables are almost occupied. In the end, Xiao Yi waved his hand and directly booked five tables.
Just kidding, when the patent for lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries is authorized, it will cost hundreds of millions.
Xiao Yi is not short of this little money at all.
…
With the conclusion of this year's selection of Yangtze River Scholars, although the list is not public, people in domestic academic circles quickly learned about the specific situation, and naturally there were quite a lot of people talking about it.
This is roughly equivalent to who has been promoted to the Yangtze River level.
Very eye-catching.
Of course, Xiao Yi is definitely the one who is talked about the most.
A 20-year-old Yangtze River scholar, and he is also a distinguished professor.
There are three types of Yangtze River Scholars: distinguished professors, visiting professors and young scholars. Among them, the distinguished professor level has the highest status.
There are people who are envious for a while, there are people who are jealous, and of course there are people who hate it.
Ever since, some people began to secretly get angry and express their dissatisfaction.
"You are already an outstanding young man, and now you are judging a Yangtze River scholar. Isn't he really the leader's illegitimate son?"
"Tsk tsk, we even built a laboratory worth hundreds of millions, and I even heard that we are about to start expanding it."
"..."
Of course, in the face of these backhanded remarks, many people refuted Xiao Yi.
"Otherwise? Why don't you try to get a Fields Medal?"
"Are you going to get the whole room-temperature superconductor out?"
"Are you going to prove a millennium problem?"
"you go……"
Various rebuttals made these people break their guard and began to curse back.
For a time, the domestic academic circles started to quarrel because of Xiao Yi's incident.
But right now.
Three papers published in the two top journals "JACS" and "ACS Nano" silenced everyone.
The authors of these three papers are unknown, but the corresponding author, Xiao Yi, is famous.
Of course, if it's just Xiao Yi's name, it's nothing.
The point is.
Taken together, these three papers represent the following:
Lithium-sulfur solid battery!
Immediately, the entire battery industry, as well as related academic circles, fell into a huge earthquake.
Lithium-sulfur batteries and solid-state batteries are considered to be the next generation of batteries.
Now it is born in the form of combination!
Everyone knows that the battery industry is going to change drastically!
Chapter 203 Some are happy and some are worried
United States, Binghamton University, in the corridor of the laboratory building where the Department of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering is located.
"Professor Whittingham! Professor Whittingham!"
A voice sounded in the corridor, and a man holding two magazines in his hands rushed towards an old man who was walking in the corridor.
The old man heard the shout and turned his head to look.
After seeing the visitor, the old man smiled and said hello: "Oh! It's Mr. Gram. Why are you here looking for me now?"
As for this old man, his name is known to everyone in the chemical world.
Michael Stanley Whittingham, father of lithium-ion batteries.
He is a key figure in the history of lithium-ion batteries, having invented the first rechargeable lithium metal battery, which was patented in 1977.
Until 2019, he and two other important contributors to lithium batteries won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
It can be said that when it comes to the history of lithium batteries, he is a key figure that cannot be avoided.
As for Gram, who came to him, he was an executive from ExxonMobil.
ExxonMobil is a well-known company in the world. It mainly deals in energy business, especially in petroleum. It can be called one of the largest energy companies in the world. After all, its predecessor is Standard Oil Company of the Rockefeller family.
Of course, in addition to the oil business, it also has a very broad business in energy such as batteries.
For example, Whittingham's patent was licensed to ExxonMobil.
There is a very deep cooperative relationship between the two, which has been maintained to this day, so Gram came to Whittingham.
After running to Whittingham, Gram took a few breaths and said, "Professor Whittingham, I finally meet you. I wonder if you have read the latest issue of "JACS" and "ACS Nano"?"
"Hmm? Is the new issue of "JACS" out? I haven't read it yet. As for "ACS Nano", I don't pay much attention to the aspect of nanotechnology."
The old man asked, "Mr. Gram came to me, is it because there are important results in these two journals?"
"Yes!"
Mr. Gram nodded, and then handed the two magazines in his hand to Professor Whittingham.
Then he opened the catalog and marked the three papers on it.
"Look at these three papers! Do these three new materials represent lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries?"
When he heard this, Professor Whittingham narrowed his eyes.
"Lithium-sulfur solid-state batteries? Are you kidding?"
"Of course I'm not kidding! Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you specifically!"
Gram said.
Whittingham glanced at the titles of the three papers.
A carbon nanoporous material that can effectively inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites?
Is it true?
Has a method for inhibiting the growth of lithium dendrites been found?
Is it false?
However, considering that the journal in which this paper was published was ACS Nano, he had to temporarily put aside his doubts.
As the top journal in the field of nanomaterials, ACS Nano has an impact factor of 15, which is higher than that of JACS. Papers published in such journals are quite credible.
Which research team made this material?
He immediately looked at the author of the paper, and then he was stunned.
Xiao Yi?
Of course he knew this name. He had seen the electron-interface reaction migration model that Xiao Yi made some time ago.
At the beginning, he also gave a very positive evaluation of this model: "How electrons behave at the interface has always been a major problem that has troubled the academic community. If this problem can be solved, it will play a key role in our analysis of related materials, especially in the analysis of electrochemical problems. Fortunately, the electron-interface reaction migration model has successfully solved this problem for us."
How long has it been since then, under his leadership, such results have been achieved?
Look at the two papers in "JACS" again.
A sulfur electrode with extremely excellent performance in terms of cycle efficiency and conductivity is actually sulfided polyacrylonitrile?
There is also a modified lithium-phosphorus-sulfur-chlorine solid electrolyte, this interface impedance... and this ion conductivity...
He was more and more shocked in his heart, until the end, he immediately said to Gram: "Let's go to the laboratory now, I'm going to start the experiment now!"
Then he walked to the laboratory without saying a word.